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PDF's created in InDesign print black as grey in Preview (though not Acrobat Reader)

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    • May 14, 2011 at 10:37 am #59603
      Michael Bradley
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      The subject line makes clear I have a workaround (I print from InDesign or Acrobat Reader, not Preview), but I wonder whether anyone has seen this behavior and discovered a fix.

      The grey, by the way, is not a halftone, but a pattern of white dots on black.

      I almost forgot . . . it's not entirely simple: I get that grey output printing to a PostScript laser printer (Xerox 3220 PS), but I get perfect black printing to a cheapo HP LaserJet 1012.

      (InDesign 7.0.4, OS X 10.6.7)

    • May 14, 2011 at 3:03 pm #59604
      Theunis De Jong
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      Mac OS X's Preview is known not to be entirely PDF-compatible. Don't use it.

      The grey, by the way, is not a halftone, but a pattern of white dots on black.

      You describe it to as the very definition of a halftone and yet dare say it's not one?

    • May 14, 2011 at 3:17 pm #59605
      Michael Bradley
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      Thanks, Jongware. I fully accept your answer, though I hadn't, before this, experienced this sort of goofy behavior in Preview. And I'm not a print or design pro, but I think of a (positive) halftone as black dots on white. You'd have to see what Preview does on my PostScript printer: it looks like a Microsoft Word happy snowflake pattern, not at all like anyone's definition of a halftone.

      Again, thanks for the (knowledgeable) response!

      Mike Bradley

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